Sessions

Cloud computing is no longer a buzz term but a reality. With a great opportunity for huge financial savings and demand for Software-as-a-Service products, developing products for the cloud is something that cannot be ignored. In this talk, I would like to touch upon 3 key aspects of cloud engineering – scalability, security and flexibility and its impact on application architecture, data processing needs and deployment.

“IT systems today, are being used to manage, monitor and analyze cloud scale infrastructures. This involves large scale collection and analysis of data related to hundreds of performance measures (like CPU, Memory utilization, Job queue size etc) for hundreds of thousands of servers and applications in a cloud scale data center with a fairly short sampling rates ranging in seconds. This scale yields millions of concurrent time series observations and an extremely large quantum of data (TB’s).(more…)

Cloud Computing has had phenomenal growth over the past year and continues to entrench itself in all facets of IT. Cloud Computing is definitely more than just a buzz word or a passing trend. Now the heavy weights like IBM, HP and SAP are ready lock horns with existing players like Amazon, Salesforce and Microsoft whose offerings have matured over a period of time. Besides these big players, a lot of start ups are coming up with innovative offerings in this space.
The talk is about the current state of affairs in the cloud computing. It will cover the products, services and offerings that have been making a lot of noise in the cloud computing space.(more…)

The processing of massive amount of data gives great insights into analysis for business. Many primary algorithms run over the data and gives information which can be used for business benefits and scientific research. Extraction and processing of large amount of data has become a primary concern in terms of time, processing power and cost. Map Reduce algorithm promises to address the above mentioned concerns. It makes computing of large sets of data considerably easy and flexible. The algorithm offers high scalability across many computing nodes. This session will introduce Map Reduce algorithm, followed by few variations of the same and also hands on example in Map Reduce using Apache Hadoop.(more…)

As the cloud adoption increases, there is a growing concern about the lock-in of customers into the various cloud platforms. This session will discuss various major cloud platforms, the type of lock-in the customer will face in each of these platforms and what each customer can do to minimize their lock-in.(more…)

“With increasing demand, ever-growing datasets, unpredictable traffic patterns and need for faster response times, “scalable architecture” has become a necessity. Here, we will see how the traditional concepts and best practices for scalability have to be adopted for the cloud. Further, we will go through the unique advantages that Amazon AWS cloud offers for architecting scalable applications. As an architect, you need to identify the components and bottlenecks in your architecture and modify your application to leverage the underlying scalability.(more…)

There are many persistence frameworks on Google App Engine. Google has its low-level datastore API, then there are standards based frameworks like JPA and there are more frameworks like Objectify-Appengine specifically for Google App Engine. Managing persistence is still a challenge. With so many options, we face the dilemma of choosing right framework for the application we are building.

Objectify-Appengine extends the convenience of NoSql by providing a Hibernate-style mapping layer between your application and GAE datastore. In this session I will cover handling persistence on Google App Engine with Objectify-Appengine. At one hand Google datastore API is low level and at the other there are standard based frameworks like JPA/JDO. Objectify-Appengine tries to hit the sweet spot between the two.(more…)

Today’s end users expect ever increasing speed and complex media-rich web applications. Performance, response time and speed at which services are being delivered to customer are a critical metric for any business. Traditional application monitoring tools are powerful but have a perspective of monitoring applications in a data center.

What you lose primarily when the apps are moved to cloud is the visibility that comes monitoring performance using traditional tool in a data center. Next generation monitoring applications have to understand the cloud factor and need to be ‘cloud aware’.(more…)

Cloud Foundry is the first Open PAAS platform project created by VMWare. CloudFoundry makes the life of developer easier by eliminating the time spent installing and configuring infrastructure such as application servers and JVMs. CloudFoundry is all about choices — you have choice of frameworks (Spring + Java, Rails and Sinatara for Rails,and NodeJs) , choice of Application Services (MySQL, REDIS, MongoDB) , choice of Clouds (vSphere , vCloud, AmazonEC2) to work with. The best part of CloudFoundry is that it does not lock you to a cloud provider and does not add any limitations( we all know how difficult it is to develop in Google App Engine).(more…)

OpenStack is an Initiative by RackSpace and NASA that aims for building an Open cloud platform supported by a vibrant Ecosystem to encourage broad adoption in the market.This is currently a hot favorite of enterprises looking to build an Open cloud.

This talk will provide a brief overview of the different OpenStack Modules (Compute and Storage) and explain how to utilize these to build a cloud. We will also explore the newly released Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) and its integration with OpenStack Platform. There will be a hands-on demo (time permitting) where we will show how the integration between the OpenStack Platform and XCP works.(more…)

There are numerous legal issues in cloud computing like operational, legislative or regulatory, security, third party contractual limitations, risk allocation or mitigation, and jurisdictional issues.

Security, privacy and confidentiality remain the biggest concern for the data owner, as when the data is stored on the cloud the same might be accessible to multiple users. There is concern for its safety and protection of valuable data and trade secrets. Then there are intellectual property issues regarding ownership of and rights in information and services placed in the cloud.(more…)

As part of this session I intend to provide a technical overview of how cloud computing can be made secure across various networks architectures and deployments such as

(a) Security in public cloud deployments – data and application security. This will cover methods such as data encryption, multi tenancy, data wipeout, what type of data to place in public clouds, autentication methods.
(b) Security by using public/private mix hybrid cloud deployments. This will cover using hybrid clouds effectively to segregate some portions of data in the public and some in hybrid and how a request can be moved across these. It would also cover options for enterprises to make their solutions secure.
(c) Security features provided by current cloud vendors.
(d) How a cloud deployer can ensure the solution they are providing is secure.(more…)

Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB offers an easy way to get introduced to the world of NoSQL.In this session we will learn how to work with CouchDB, how to install it over an Amazon EC2 instance and how to insert and query data on it. We will then create a Ruby on Rails application, host it on the cloud through Heroku and integrate it with our CouchDB.(more…)

UnConference is a participant-driven session for short, open discussions on various topics of interest to delegates. A delegate can present a question / make a point in a couple of minutes followed by an open discussion where speakers as well as others from the assembly contribute their views.

The Unconference has been working very well at IndicThreads Conferences, helping delegates crowd source opinions & answers on various topics of intrigue & interest.

The topics for the UnConference are decided via listings on a white board at the venue.(more…)

The 2nd IndicThreads.com Conference On Upcoming technology (2011- Cloud Computing) will be held on 3-4June 2011 in Pune, India. The conference is an independent event on upcoming technology. The topic for the 2011 conference is Cloud Computing.